TWIST IN SIPHO SHONGWE’S BAIL HEARING

MBABANE – Judge Sipho Nkosi was left scratching his head when evidence emerged yesterday that the South African junior warder who came out in Sipho Shongwe’s defence has allegedly changed tune.

The Barberton Maximum Prison junior warder, Makhaza Obedia Ndlovu, has allegedly jumped to Shongwe’s defence to quash suspicions that the suspect escaped from prison.

This is if the affidavit he filed on March 8, 2018 is anything to go by.
Before the ink on Ndlovu’s affidavit, which portrayed Shongwe as an innocent man could even dry up, Judge Nkosi yesterday received yet another affidavit which was filed by the Crown and deposed to allegedly by the same Ndlovu.

In the affidavit dated March 15, 2018, Ndlovu denied that he knew Shongwe and the circumstances of his release.
The Crown and Shongwe have both filed affidavits allegedly from Ndlovu, which tell contradicting stories. In an affidavit filed on behalf of Shongwe, Ndlovu paints a picture that there was nothing wrong with Shongwe’s release from prison.

On the Crown’s affidavit, Ndlovu, this is if he is the same Makhaza Obedia Ndlovu who deposed to both affidavits, tells the court that he did not know Shongwe.

Ndlovu, in the Crown’s affidavit alleged that he was approached by a former official of Barberton Maximum Prison named Cyprian (CP) Shongwe who had prepared an affidavit for him to sign.

The Crown informed the court that Cyprian could be related to Shongwe (Sipho).
The affidavit, which had allegedly been prepared by Cyprian was to facilitate Shongwe’s release from prison purportedly on parole.
“On the date when CP Shongwe approached me, I did not personally read the contents of the affidavit that he had already prepared for me to sign. I did not know the offender in person because on my arrival at the maximum prison, the offender was already released from prison. I don’t know the circumstances around which the offender (Sipho) was released. That is all,” he wrote on the affidavit.

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